Re: The (unnecessary) overhead of initramfs

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On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 12:19:53PM -0400, Warren Togami wrote:
> On 07/29/2009 12:16 PM, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> >On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 01:40:45PM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> >
> >>The initramfs scripts spend a lot of wasted time and effort doing things
> >>that really don't need to be done:
> >>
> >>In the "framebuffer" init-top script:
> >>
> >>   modprobe -q intel_agp
> >>   modprobe -q i915
> >>   modprobe -q ${FB} ${OPTS}
> >
> >These may be the source of an issue we are seeing with radeon drivers.
> >That when using a pure AMD system you get the i915 driver loaded for
> >no apparent reason.  I presume these should be -b even if they were
> >not redundant?
> >
> 
> Why is this being discussed on this list when this has nothing to do 
> with dracut?

afais this list is related to initramfs dev on Linux
and *not* dracut specific.

your question sounds like a request for a change of policy,
but then the list might better be named dracut@vger

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